Pool Friends

Last week saw the new summer release from Avery Elle and whilst waiting patiently for 

my goodies to arrive I thought I'd play again with this fab pool 

set called Splash from last year.... it's fun to revisit older stamp sets and mix 

them with newer stash like this sentiment from MFT...

What I love about the pool from the coordinating die set is that you can cut

it to make a larger pool that goes off the edge of the card. On the light blue card base I 

used the Receding Background from Neat and Tangled to make a rippled water effect.

I  stamped it three times so the ripples don't all line up for more of water movement effect.

I coloured and die-cut the ladies and their pool floaties along with a diving board 

and steps which looked better half the length on this card.

The sentiment is just perfect for this pool scene... the only thing 

they're missing is a glass of something bubbly!

   

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Out of the Box Ocean Scenes

Hello hello... yay it's Bank Holiday Monday... fingers crossed for a sunny one too!!

Today I have a couple of cards using the Ocean Add-Ons for the Lawn fawn shadow box but neither are a shadow box!!! Come and see....

The die set contains a great scalloped frame with a stitch detail to the outside which can be used on a card front to fame your scene. For the first card above, I used a spare piece of water-coloured card from another project to place behind the aperture and then coloured the underwater plants and clam with distress inks. I arranged them along the base of the scene and stamped a school of fish, from Avery Elle's Sea-prise, on the background. The shark is from Waffleflowers Tiger & Lily stamp set... I love how he's swooshing into the scene :)

I challenged myself to use other dies in the set for a second card... the waves and the whale.
I cut both waves in blue card and decided to leave the tabs on and curve them on the card base for some dimension.

As you can see from the photo below I had to cut one of the waves slightly shorter and make a new score line and tab so I could layer the waves.

Before adding them to the card base I sponged Limestone ink through the Carta Bella Shiplap stencil for a striped nautical feel. After layering the waves I added the whale which is coloured with distress inks and gave him a watery squirt from his blowhole by using the piece of coral from the die set.
You can see in the photo that the waves are lavishly covered with a glitter pen but it looks better in real life. The sentiment is from Avery Elle's Splash stamp set.

This card is either a 'deliver by hand' or will need a box to send it in but you could easily adjust the height of the dimension depending on where you adhere the waves on the card base.

I think this is a great standalone die set and I didn't even use the banner which is another useful shape and it's fun to use it alongside other stamp sets in your stash too :)


                   

                                                                                                                    

Summer Splash

Hi, Jenny back again with a splash of summer for you today..... we appear to have drone 

footage of a private swimming pool... hehehe 😄

Yes the Avery Elle stamp and die set called Splash is quite popular in blogland at the moment and I wanted to to try an idea using the Avery Elle Letter Balloons elle-ments to add some more floatie fun to the pool....

I thought the balloon letters would pass as floaties once the tied knots where chopped off... they are coloured with alcohol markers along with the ring and ladies from the stamp set. The pool is made with distress oxide inks smooshed onto watercolour card... they give such a good water effect. I needed the pool shape to be larger so I die cut the pool edge then chopped it in two places so I could give the illusion of a larger pool which goes off the edge of the card front.

To make the terracotta coloured terrace I clear heat embossed a hexagon background then blended MFT Peach Bellini Ink over the pattern. Unfortunately this background has been discontinued but a similar effect could be gained with the Moroccan Lattice background from MFT  or this Scales stencil, which looks like paving to me.

This lady is relaxing by the pool on a lounger I made using the diving board and ladder die. I just cut the board in patterned paper and card and the ladder in black card, I then trimmed the ladder to make  legs protrude from under the sun lounger.
I felt the pool side needed some homemade greenery so I made a couple of green leafy plants with free hand snips and placed them into white square planters... sometimes you have to improvise 😉 I think all that's missing now is a glass of something sparkly in their hands to complete the picture!!

       

Thanks for stopping by 😊
Jenny x